Shield

//ʃiːld//

Synonyms for "shield" (332 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related words (166)

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lightning rod lion lorica lorication lozenge mail make safe mantle mantling marshaling martlet mascle mask metal motto mudguard muffle mullet needles nestle nombril point nose guard obduce obscure occult octofoil or ordinary orle overlay overspread pad padding pale pall palladium paly panoply patent pean pericarp pheon pilot plate plate armor police preservation preserve preventive prophylactic protect protection protective clothing protective covering protective umbrella purpure put on quarter quartering refuge register ride shotgun for roof rose sable safeguard safety safety glass safety plug safety rail safety shoes safety switch safety valve saltire save screen scum scutcheon scute scutum seat belt secure security shade shadow shell shelter shin guard shroud signboard spines spread eagle spread over stand by subordinary suit of armor sun helmet superimpose superpose target tend tenne test testa thick skin tincture torse tressure umbrella underwrite unicorn vair veil vert vestment vindicate ward windscreen windshield wreath yale

Noun(24 words)

house of lords jakes john kybo lat lavabo longhouse necessary outhouse petty powder room privy public convenience shell shithouse shitter small room stool tearoom thunderbox

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toot urinal water closet wc

Verb(1 words)

screen

Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

9 entries

armor armour conceal hide protect protection protective cover protective covering scute

More specific

11 entries

buckler heatshield pavache pavais rondache roundel scutum sunshield tallevas targe target

Synonyms

3 entries

carapace defense harbor

at location

2 entries

california los angeles

capable of

1 entries

protect

derived

74 entries

Golden Shield Shield Row Shield of David Whipple shield armshield beshield bitch shield brown-point shield skin longirostris chin shield dayshield dress shield enshield eyeshield face shield faceshield forceshield

Showing 16 of 74 words.

has context

10 entries

electricity euphemism geology heraldry law enforcement lichenology mining science fiction scotland transport

is a

4 entries

armor defense system protective covering television show

manner of

1 entries

protect

related to

69 entries

adit arm arm protection arm straps armor armour asci badge bearing blocking blocking blows blows body circle coats of arms coin

Showing 16 of 69 words.

Translations

374 translations across 177 languages.

Acehnese

1 entries

peurisè noun (armor)

Adyghe

1 entries

ашъо noun (armor)

Afar

1 entries

gob noun (armor)

Afrikaans

1 entries

skild noun (armor)

Albanian

2 entries

mburojë noun (armor)
shqyt noun (armor)

Amharic

1 entries

ጋሻ noun (armor)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

θυρεός noun (armor)
λαισήϊον noun (armor)
σάκος noun (armor)
ἀσπίς noun (armor)

Ao

1 entries

jong (Chungli) noun (armor)

Arabic

4 entries

تُرْس noun (armor)
دِرع noun (armor)
دِرْع noun (armor)
مِجَنّ noun (armor)

Aramaic

1 entries

ܣܟܪܐ noun (armor)

Arapaho

1 entries

heeceiʼ noun (armor)

Armenian

1 entries

վահան noun (armor)

Assamese

1 entries

ঢাল noun (armor)

Asturian

1 entries

escudu noun (armor)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

qalxan noun (armor)

Bambara

1 entries

nɛgɛbɛnnan noun (armor)

Bashkir

1 entries

ҡалҡан noun (armor)

Basque

1 entries

ezkutu noun (armor)

Belarusian

1 entries

шчыт noun (armor)

Bengali

1 entries

ঢাল noun (armor)

Binukid

1 entries

kalasag noun (armor)

Breton

1 entries

skoed noun (armor)

Bulgarian

4 entries

закрилник noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
защи́та noun (anything that protects or defends)
защитник noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
полицейска значка noun (colloquial: a police badge)

Burmese

1 entries

ကာ noun (armor)

Buryat

1 entries

халха noun (armor)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

щит noun (armor)

Catalan

1 entries

escut noun (armor)

Cebuano

1 entries

kalasag noun (armor)

Chichewa

1 entries

chishango noun (armor)

Chinese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

保護者 /保护者 noun (anything that protects or defends)
盾 noun (armor)
盾牌 noun (armor)
防護物 /防护物 noun (anything that protects or defends)

Church Slavic

2 entries

щитъ noun (armor)
ⱋⰻⱅⱏ noun (armor)

Classical Nahuatl

3 entries

chimal noun (armor)
chimalli noun (armor)
chīmalli noun (armor)

Coptic

2 entries

ϣⲉⲃϣⲓ noun (armor)
ⲑⲩⲣⲱⲛ noun (armor)

Cornish

1 entries

skoos noun (armor)

Czech

4 entries

kryt noun (anything that protects or defends)
štít noun (armor)
štít noun (anything that protects or defends)
štít noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Dakota

1 entries

waháchąka noun (armor)

Danish

4 entries

skjold noun (armor)
skjold noun (anything that protects or defends)
skjold noun (anything that protects or defends)
beskytte verb (to protect, to defend)

Dutch

4 entries

badge noun (colloquial: a police badge)
beschermer noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
bescherming noun (anything that protects or defends)
beschermster noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Dyirbal

1 entries

bigan noun (armor)

Eastern Arrernte

1 entries

alkwerte noun (armor)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Egyptian

1 entries

i-km-m-F27 noun (armor)

Erzya

1 entries

ваксар noun (armor)

Esperanto

3 entries

ŝildo noun (armor)
ŝirmilo noun (anything that protects or defends)
ŝirmi verb (to protect, to defend)

Estonian

3 entries

kaitse noun (anything that protects or defends)
kilp noun (armor)
kaitsma verb (to protect, to defend)

Faroese

1 entries

skjøldur noun (armor)

Finnish

4 entries

kilpi noun (armor)
kilpi noun (anything that protects or defends)
kilpi noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
kilpi noun (heraldry)

French

4 entries

bouclier noun (armor)
bouclier noun (anything that protects or defends)
bouclier noun (sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends)
écu noun (armor)

Friulian

1 entries

scût noun (armor)

Galician

4 entries

escudo noun (armor)
escudo noun (anything that protects or defends)
escudo noun (heraldry)
escudar verb (to protect, to defend)

Georgian

1 entries

ფარი noun (armor)

German

4 entries

Schild noun (armor)
Schilt noun (armor)
Schutz noun (anything that protects or defends)
beschützen verb (to protect, to defend)

Gothic

1 entries

𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 noun (armor)

Greek

4 entries

ασπίδα noun (armor)
ασπίδα noun (anything that protects or defends)
ασπίδα noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
ασπίδα noun (sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Hausa

1 entries

garkuwa noun (armor)

Hebrew

3 entries

מָגֵן noun (armor)
מָגֵן noun (anything that protects or defends)
שִׁרְיוֹן noun (anything that protects or defends)

Higaonon

1 entries

kalasag noun (armor)

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

1 entries

chi̱mal noun (armor)

Hindi

2 entries

कवच noun (armor)
ढाल noun (armor)

Hungarian

2 entries

pajzs noun (armor)
védelem noun (anything that protects or defends)

Hunsrik

1 entries

Schild noun (armor)

Icelandic

4 entries

skjöldur noun (armor)
skjöldur noun (anything that protects or defends)
hlífa verb (to protect, to defend)
skýla verb (to protect, to defend)

Ido

1 entries

shildo noun (armor)

Indonesian

3 entries

pelindung noun (anything that protects or defends)
tameng noun (armor)
melindungi verb (to protect, to defend)

Interlingua

1 entries

scuto noun (armor)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

سِپَر noun (armor)

Irish

1 entries

sciath noun (armor)

Italian

4 entries

copertura noun (anything that protects or defends)
protezione noun (anything that protects or defends)
rifugio noun (anything that protects or defends)
riparo noun (anything that protects or defends)

Japanese

2 entries

盾 noun (armor)
保護する verb (to protect, to defend)

Kalmyk

1 entries

халхц noun (armor)

Kannada

2 entries

ಗುರಾಣಿ noun (armor)
ಡಾಲು noun (armor)

Karakalpak

1 entries

qalqan noun (armor)

Kasem

2 entries

cɩ-kwaŋa noun (armor)
tɔn-tɩʋ noun (armor)

Kazakh

1 entries

қалқан noun (armor)

Khmer

1 entries

ខែល noun (armor)

Korean

4 entries

방패 noun (armor)
보호물 noun (anything that protects or defends)
보호자 noun (anything that protects or defends)
을 보호하다 verb (to protect, to defend)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

калкан noun (armor)

Lao

2 entries

ແສງ noun (armor)
ໂລ່ noun (armor)

Latgalian

1 entries

škīda noun (armor)

Latin

4 entries

clipeus noun (armor)
integumentum noun (anything that protects or defends)
parma noun (armor)
scutum noun (armor)

Latvian

4 entries

aizsargs noun (anything that protects or defends)
aizsegs noun (anything that protects or defends)
ekrāns noun (anything that protects or defends)
vairogs noun (armor)

Ligurian

1 entries

scûddo noun (armor)

Limburgish

2 entries

sjildj noun (armor)
sjèldj noun (armor)

Lindu

1 entries

kaliawo noun (armor)

Lingala

1 entries

nguba noun (armor)

Lithuanian

3 entries

apsauga noun (anything that protects or defends)
skydas noun (armor)
saugoti verb (to protect, to defend)

Lombard

1 entries

scud noun (armor)

Low German

1 entries

Schild noun (armor)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

šćit noun (armor)

Luganda

1 entries

engabo noun (armor)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Schëld noun (armor)

Macedonian

4 entries

штит noun (armor)
штит noun (anything that protects or defends)
штит noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)
штит noun (heraldry)

Malagasy

1 entries

ampinga noun (armor)

Malay

1 entries

perisai noun (armor)

Malayalam

1 entries

പരിച noun (armor)

Maltese

1 entries

tarka noun (armor)

Manx

1 entries

scape noun (armor)

Marathi

1 entries

ढाल noun (armor)

Middle Persian

2 entries

𐫖𐫃𐫏𐫗 noun (armor)
𐭮𐭯𐭥 noun (armor)

Middle Welsh

2 entries

taryan noun (armor)
ysgwyt noun (armor)

Mongolian

1 entries

бамбай noun (armor)

Māori

4 entries

hīra noun (heraldry)
kahupeka noun (armor)
whakaruruhau verb (to protect, to defend)
ārai verb (to protect, to defend)

Nandi

1 entries

loñg noun (armor)

Navajo

2 entries

naagééh noun (armor)
áchʼą́ą́h neilyéii noun (armor)

Nepali

1 entries

कवच noun (armor)

Ngazidja Comorian

2 entries

mbinga noun (armor)
mbinga noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Ngunawal

1 entries

bimbiang noun (armor)

Nhanda

1 entries

wurnda noun (armor)

Nogai

1 entries

калкан noun (armor)

Northern Min Chinese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Norwegian

2 entries

skjerme verb (to protect, to defend)
verne verb (to protect, to defend)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

skjerm noun (anything that protects or defends)
skjold noun (armor)
skjold noun (anything that protects or defends)
vern noun (anything that protects or defends)

Occitan

2 entries

bloquier noun (armor)
escut noun (armor)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

щитъ noun (armor)

Old English

1 entries

sċield noun (armor)

Old French

1 entries

escut noun (armor)

Old Norse

1 entries

skjǫldr noun (armor)

Old Occitan

1 entries

escut noun (armor)

Omaha-Ponca

1 entries

taháwagthe noun (armor)

Ossetian

1 entries

уарт noun (armor)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

ترس noun (armor)
درقه noun (armor)
سپر noun (armor)
سپر noun (anything that protects or defends)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

щит noun (armor)

Pashto

2 entries

سپر noun (armor)
ډال noun (armor)

Pennsylvania German

1 entries

Schild noun (armor)

Penobscot

1 entries

an̈gȣ̑ian noun (armor)

Piedmontese

1 entries

scu noun (armor)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Schilt noun (armor)

Polish

4 entries

osłona noun (anything that protects or defends)
pawęża noun (armor)
pole siłowe noun (sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends)
szczyt noun (armor)

Portuguese

3 entries

escudo noun (armor)
escudo noun (anything that protects or defends)
proteger verb (to protect, to defend)

Rohingya

1 entries

dhál noun (armor)

Romagnol

1 entries

scud noun (armor)

Romanian

4 entries

indicator (de circulație) noun (transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.)
pavăză noun (armor)
pavăză noun (anything that protects or defends)
protectoare noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Russian

4 entries

защи́та noun (anything that protects or defends)
щит noun (armor)
щит noun (heraldry)
щит noun (mining)

Sango

1 entries

nguba noun (armor)

Sanskrit

2 entries

कवच noun (armor)
ढाल noun (armor)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

sgiath noun (armor)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

štit noun (sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends)
štȋt noun (armor)
štȋt noun (anything that protects or defends)
štȋt noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Shor

1 entries

қуйақ noun (armor)

Sicilian

1 entries

scutu noun (armor)

Sinhalese

1 entries

පලිහ noun (armor)

Slovak

4 entries

kryt noun (anything that protects or defends)
štít noun (armor)
štít noun (anything that protects or defends)
chrániť verb (to protect, to defend)

Slovene

3 entries

ščit noun (armor)
ščitnik noun (anything that protects or defends)
ščititi verb (to protect, to defend)

Southern Altai

1 entries

калка кӧлгӧк noun (armor)

Spanish

4 entries

chimal noun (armor)
escudo noun (armor)
escudo noun (anything that protects or defends)
blindar verb (to protect, to defend)

Swahili

2 entries

ngao noun (armor)
ngao noun (figuratively, one who protects or defends)

Swazi

1 entries

lihawu noun (armor)

Swedish

4 entries

skyddsplåt noun (anything that protects or defends)
skärma noun (anything that protects or defends)
sköld noun (armor)
sköld noun (anything that protects or defends)

Sylheti

1 entries

ꠓꠣꠟ noun (armor)

Tabasaran

1 entries

къалкан noun (armor)

Tagalog

1 entries

kalasag noun (armor)

Tajik

1 entries

сипар noun (armor)

Tamil

1 entries

கேடயம் noun (armor)

Tatar

1 entries

калкан noun (armor)

Telugu

1 entries

డాలు noun (armor)

Tetum

1 entries

kalili noun (armor)

Thai

2 entries

เขน noun (armor)
โล่ noun (armor)

Tibetan

3 entries

ཕུབ noun (armor)
ཕུབ noun (anything that protects or defends)
འགེབས་སྲུང་ཡོ་ཆས noun (anything that protects or defends)

Turkish

3 entries

kalkan noun (armor)
kalkan noun (anything that protects or defends)
korumak verb (to protect, to defend)

Turkmen

1 entries

galkan noun (armor)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎖𐎍𐎓 noun (armor)

Ukrainian

1 entries

щит noun (armor)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

škit noun (armor)

Urdu

1 entries

ڈهال noun (armor)

Uyghur

1 entries

قالقان noun (armor)

Uzbek

1 entries

qalqon noun (armor)

Vietnamese

2 entries

khiên noun (armor)
lá chắn noun (armor)

Volapük

1 entries

platäd noun (armor)

Wajarri

1 entries

gurnda noun (armor)

Welsh

2 entries

aes noun (anything that protects or defends)
tarian noun (armor)

West-Frisian

1 entries

skyld noun (armor)

Woiwurrung

2 entries

gayaam noun (armor)
mulga noun (armor)

Wu Chinese

1 entries

盾 noun (armor)

Yiddish

1 entries

שילד noun (armor)

Yucatec Maya

1 entries

chimal noun (armor)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Look on both sides of the shield.

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Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

Source: tatoeba (1490950)

I used his beheaded body as a shield.

Source: tatoeba (1538635)

He used the book as a shield.

Source: tatoeba (3680430)

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Shield

Synonyms for "shield" (332 found)

Closest matches (67)

Strong matches (99)

Related words (166)

Related word relations

More general

More specific

Synonyms

at location

capable of

derived

has context

is a

manner of

related to

Translations

Acehnese

Adyghe

Afar

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Ao

Arabic

Aramaic

Arapaho

Armenian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bambara

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Binukid

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Buryat

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Cebuano

Chichewa

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Classical Nahuatl

Coptic

Cornish

Czech

Dakota

Danish

Dutch

Dyirbal

Eastern Arrernte

Eastern Min Chinese

Egyptian

Erzya

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Hakka Chinese

Hausa

Hebrew

Higaonon

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

Hindi

Hungarian